Top 5 American Films of 2014
“Boyhood”
“Gone Girl”
“The Immigrant”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Love Is Strange”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Foreign Films of 2014
“We Are The Best!”
“Ida”
“Calvary”
“Winter Sleep”
“Force Majeure”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Actors of 2014
Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory Of Everything”
Tom Hardy, “Locke”
Guy Pearce, “The Rover”
Ben Affleck, “Gone Girl”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Actresses of 2014
Marion Cotillard, “Two Days, One Night” and “The Immigrant”
Agata Kulesza, “Ida”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory Of Everything”
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Supporting Actors of 2014
J. K. Simmons, “Whiplash”
Josh Brolin, “Inherent Vice”
Ben Mendelsohn, “Starred Up,” “Exodus”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Supporting Actresses of 2014
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”
Nina Foss, “A Most Wanted Man”
Andrea Riseborough, “Birdman”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Elisabeth Moss, “Listen Up Philip”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Directors of 2014
David Fincher, “Gone Girl”
Pawel Pawlikowski, “Ida”
Jonathan Glazer, “Under The Skin”
Steven Knight, “Locke”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Cinematography of 2014
Jeff Cronenweth, “Gone Girl”
Robert Elswit, “Inherent Vice,” “Nightcrawler”
Radoslaw Ladczuk, “The Babadook”
Greig Fraser, “Foxcatcher”
Emmanuel Lubezki, “Birdman”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Screenplays of 2014
“Top Five”
“Calvary”
“The LEGO Movie”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”
“Inherent Vice”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Documentaries of 2014
“Life Itself”
“Citizenfour”
“The Overnighters”
“20,000 Days On Earth”
“Last Days Of Vietnam”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Chillers of 2014
“The Babadook”
“Blue Ruin”
“Cheap Thrills”
“The Honeymoon”
“The Guest”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Films You Can’t See Yet
“Farewell to Language”
“The Duke of Burgundy”
“Leviathan”
“Clouds of Sils Maria”
“The Strange Little Cat”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Soundtracks or Scores of 2014
“Under The Skin,” Mica Levi
“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Alexandre Desplat
“Gone Girl,” Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“Inherent Vice,” Jonny Greenwood
“Only Lovers Left Alive,” SQÜRL
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Overlooked Films of 2014
“Blue Ruin”
“The Rover”
“Starred Up”
“Coherence”
“Listen Up Philip”
—Ray Pride